Improvement in show-boxes



J. LOEB. Show-BOX.

Patented Dec. 2,1879.

N.PE|'ERS, PROTO-UTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. u C.

UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

.IAoon'LoEB, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT |N SHOW-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,291, dated December 2, 1879; application filed October 25, 1879.

To all whom z't-may concern:

Be it 'known that I, JAooB LoEB, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boxes for Embroidery, &c.,of which thefollowing is a specification; I

My invention relates to improvements in boxes for containing trimmings, braids, 8m, and forexposing a smallportion of the contents while the main body of the same is protected from being soiled; and the object of my invention is to so make a box that the exposed portion of the contents shall not be crumpled or abraded. -j

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view 'oflmy improved boxfor containing and exhibiting trimmings, Hamburg edgin gs, and analogous narrow fabrics,

l the tray in this view being partly drawn out from the outer ca'singofgthe box; Fig. 2, a-

perspective view of the empty tray; Fig. '3, an

inverted perspective view, of the same,show-.

ing the exposed portions of the trimmings,

and Fig. 4 an inverted perspective view of the box containing the tray and trimmings. 1 The box consists of two main parts, namely, the outer casing, A, and the tray B, one end of the former being open for the reception The trimming is deposited in the tray in a series of folds, w, and in such a manner that after sliding the said tray to a limited extent fromthe box, as shown'in Fig. 1, any desired alengthof trimming may be Withdrawn 'with out disturbingthe folds, which are retained within the limitslofl the tray partly. by the edges of the same, partly by the top a of I the outercasing, and partly by aledge, b,-Fig..2, beneath which the ends [of the folds are pushed. l

3 In the bottomof the tray, Fig. 3, are made two slits, d 0?, through which a portion of the trimming is passed and repassed and tightly wrapped around that portion of the bottom of the tray which intervenes between the two slits, so that a number of lengths of trimming (three in the present instance) willappear on theoutside of the tray when the latter is; in-

l verted, as in Fig, 3, the lengths preferably overlapping each other. I g n In the bottom of the outer casing of the box there is an opening, h, Fig. 4, bearing such relation to the slits in the tray that when the trimming should not sag when the box is in the position Fig. 1, and this sagging is prevented by such a contraction of theopening in width that the said exposed portion of the trimming will rest on the bottom of the outer casing at and near the edges of the opening.

In retail stores, and especially in country stores, where a number of boxes containing different trimmings are kept on hand for'some time, it is important that the exposed portions .of the trimmings should not be crumpled or otherwise defaced by placing one boxon another and withdrawing any one or more boxes from a pile of the same hence the desirability of preventingthe said exposed portions of the trimming of one box from coming into close contact with and being abraded by another A box. To prevent this there is the thickness of the bottom of the box in addition to the above-described prevention against sagging; The character .of the trimming canbe noticed without opening the box, and hence-the contents are prevented from being soiled by repeated exposure.

1 claim as my invention- The within-described box consistingofthe outer casing, A, open at one end, having an opening in the bottom, and the tray B, having in the bottom the two slits d d ofa length greater than the width of the openingin the bottom of the casing, the whole: being other wise constructed and combined as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. I

JAooB on- Witnesses l ALEXANDER PArrnRsoN, HARRY SMITH. 

